Make a summer mocktail, get a book to read while you sip on it!

As a kid, I was always the one mixing different soda at the fountain. Sprite with orange soda! Iced tea and lemonade! Root beer and vanilla Coke! Cream soda and ginger ale? [Hey. I never said that the combinations were all successes.]
<section><h2><h2><strong>Make a summer mocktail, get a book to read while you sip on it!</strong></h2></h2><p><p>As a kid, I was always the one mixing different soda at the fountain. Sprite with orange soda! Iced tea and lemonade! Root beer and vanilla Coke! Cream soda and ginger ale? [Hey. I never said that the combinations were all successes.]</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><p><strong>MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE</strong></p></h2></h2><p><p>Danyal Jilani has no lack of confidence. He may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he's funny, gorgeous, and going to make a great chef one day. His father doesn't approve of his career choice, but that hardly matters. What <em>does</em> matter is the opinion of Danyal's longtime crush, the perfect-in-all-ways Kaval, and her family, who consider him a less than ideal arranged-marriage prospect.<strong></strong></p><p>Then Danyal gets selected for the Renaissance Man, a school-wide academic championship and the perfect opportunity to show everyone he's smarter than they think. He recruits the brilliant, totally-uninterested-in-him Bisma to help with the competition, but the more time Danyal spends with her...the more he learns from her...the more he cooks for her...the more he realizes that happiness may be staring him right in his pretty face.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>CAMP</strong></p></h2></h3><p><p>Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It&rsquo;s where he met his best friends. It&rsquo;s where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it&rsquo;s where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim&mdash;who&rsquo;s only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists.<strong></strong></p><p>This year, though, it&rsquo;s going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as &lsquo;Del&rsquo; &ndash; buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he&rsquo;s determined to get Hudson to fall for him.</p><p>But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself how much is he willing to change for love. And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn&rsquo;t know who he truly is?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><p><strong>DEAR UNIVERSE</strong></p></h2></h3><p><p>It's senior year, and Chamomile Myles has whiplash from traveling between her two universes: school (the relentless countdown to prom, torturous college applications, and the mindless march toward an uncertain future) and home, where she wrestles a slow, bitter battle with her father's terminal illness. Enter Brendan, a man-bun- and tutu-wearing hospital volunteer with a penchant for absurdity, who strides boldly between her worlds&mdash;and helps her open up a new road between them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dear Universe is the dazzling follow-up to Florence Gonsalves's debut, <em>Love &amp; Other Carnivorous Plants</em>, hailed by <em>School Library Journal</em> as "a must-have sharp, powerful, and witty immersion into the complexities of...mental health."</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><p><strong>INCENDIARY</strong></p></h2></h3><p><p><em>I am Renata Convida.</em><strong></strong></p><p><em>I have lived a hundred stolen lives.</em><strong></strong></p><p><em>Now I live my own.</em><strong></strong></p><p>Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King&rsquo;s Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucia. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to carry out the King&rsquo;s Wrath, a siege that resulted in the deaths of thousands of her own people.</p><p>Now Renata is one of the Whispers, rebel spies working against the crown. The Whispers may have rescued Renata years ago, but she cannot escape their mistrust and hatred-or the overpowering memories of the hundreds of souls she drained during her time in the palace.</p><p>When Dez, the commander of her unit-and the boy she&rsquo;s grown to love-is taken captive by the notorious Principe Dorado, Renata must return to Andalucia and complete Dez&rsquo;s top secret mission herself. Can she keep her cover, even as she burns for vengeance against the brutal, enigmatic prince? Her life and the fate of the Moria depend on it.</p></p></section><section><h2><h2>First things first, what kind of glass are you using?</h2></h2></section><section><h3><h2><p>What do you think about ice?</p></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Do you prefer?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Pick a juice</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Add a splash of</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Finish it off with a garnish</strong></h2></h3></section>
quizStefanie HoffmanJune 25, 2020more than just a pretty face, syed masood, camp, l. c. rosen, dear universe, florence gonsalves, incendiary, zoraida cordovaComment